An unexpected salvation

Chapter 4: Weasleys, councils, and decisions

Sorry for the delay RL got in the way. Thanks to my beta fayfairy for helping me write this chapter

Once they arrived at Malfoy Manor two things happened at the same time, Severus still holding an unconscious Harry took off to one of the guest room with Narcissa hot on his heels, while Lucius took a firm hold on his son. Right now the older boy was running on instinct, and in his blind rage he could attack both Severus and his mother. Not that they were worried— for as powerful and strong as Draco was, he was still very much a cub, and would be easily subdued— no they were worry that he would get in the way, and delay the treatment for the boy.

"Let me go." snarled Draco.

"No." said his father.

"He is my mate! I have a right to be there!"

"You have no right Draco, until you bond the boy belongs to Severus and if you go with them you don't only put yourself at risk, but you also put your mate in danger." said the older Malfoy trying to talk some sense into his son.

"You think that I would hurt my own mate?"

"You wouldn't be the first one to do it, but no I don't think that you would hurt your mate, at least not consciously. Now let them help him, and later when Severus says it's okay you may see him"

Meanwhile upstairs the adult were at a lost, the new that the boy had to be hurt somewhat for him to be this close to death, yet they couldn't see a mark on him except for the scar on his forehead, and the two markings that came from being a Zia.

"Maybe he's wearing a Glamour." ventured Narcissa. Severus didn't say anything, he just kept looking at the boy for a couple of minutes before saying:

"Finite Incantatem." for a moment nothing happened, then they saw the spell moving trough Harry's body. On a normal person the spell would have deactivated any glamour that the boy may had been wearing, but on Harry it seems to be looking for the weakest one to brake. It was really a fascinating site, one that the scientist in him wanted to record and study, but then he realized that this put the boy in more danger. If they couldn't brake all of the child's Glamours with one spell, that meant that they would have to recast the spell over and over again and with more strength. Which presented him with another problem: Harry Potter's magic would not allow them to suppress his magic; it was a rare gift to posses but he knew that the boy had it, if Poppy's account of the boy's first unconscious stay in the hospital wing was anything to go by. That meant that he would need to call for help, but the question was who. Albus was out of the question after the end of this term he knew that the boy didn't trust Albus like before, Poppy was out of the country, Black was dead, and while Lupin would have been strong enough and familiar enough to help him, he knew that the man was grieving the death of his friend which render him pretty much useless for anything, that left only one choice the Weasleys but just which one. Ideally the youngest Weasley male would be best, but he knew that the boy had reach sixteen during the school year. This meant that he would spend the summer with his parents and his sister on the land of his ancestors being bless, and educated on this new stage of his life. Next, the twins would have been a good choice too if only they weren't God knows where doing God knows what. Bill was in France asking the Veela council permission to court Fleur officially, Which left Charlie.

"Floo Charlie Weasley at the dragon preserve." said Severus.

"But he will take the boy away!" said Cissa.

"Maybe he will, maybe he won't, but he's the only one that can save the boy."

"Draco will not like this."

"Draco has no say in this, as a matter of fact none of us do, at least not until the boy is adopted by the pride or your son gets him pregnant!"

"I wouldn't say that around Draco. I wouldn't put it pass him to do it if it meant he gets to keep his mate here." and with that she left the room.

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By the time Charlie Weasley arrived at the manor Draco was in defense mode, and while he hadn't fully transformed, he had his wings, claws and teeth out, and was ready to attack anybody he considered a threat. Luckily for Charlie working with moody dragons was his specialty, and therefore he was able to avoid the claws that would have beheaded him.

"Hello to you too Draco." he said only to receive a threatening growl in return, deciding to avoid the young Malfoy for now he turned to Severus.

"Were is Harry?" he asked, but before Severus could answer him, Draco spoke:

"You're not taking my mate!"

"I don't believe that decision is yours to make."

"By demon law, your law he is free to choose whomever he wishes to mate with as soon as he turns sixteen."

"But Harry is not sixteen."

"But he will be by the end of next month, what difference does it makes were he stays until then?"

"Under normal circumstances, it would not matter. Under normal circumstances it wouldn't really matter that Harry had found his mate a month shy of his sixteen birthday, and under normal circumstances I wouldn't mind Harry staying here provided nothing happened until his birthday and me or one of my family got to stay here with him. but this is Harry that we are talking about, and as you know nothing is normal with him. He doesn't know what type of magical creature he is, oh we had an idea of what he might be, but until now we didn't know which, he doesn't know, he doesn't know that he has a mate let along that your it, and he's a year shy of being sixteen, not a month and a few weeks."

"But he entered school with me, and he has his wings, which mean that he is close to or is already sixteen, besides the school governors wouldn't aloud it." said Draco.

"They don't know, as far as Dumbledore is concerned, no one does, not even us."

"But how? Why?" asked Cissa.

"Were not really sure how he did it, we suspect that he plan it all along, James and Lily spent almost two years in hiding, he was the one that announce Lily's pregnancy a couple of days after Alice announced hers for what reason we don't know, but we think it had to do with some prophecies. As for why let me asked you something professor, at what levels would you put Harry's magical levels? I'm not talking about his intelligence, I'm talking about the power behind his spells."

"Above normal."

"Now what would you do if I told you that Harry is smarter than he lets on, that he only get bad grades because he learned from a young age that it was healthier and safer to do worst than his cousin, and that when he got to Hogwarts he still did the same. What would you do if I tell you that the boy upstairs created magical walls around his core, in order to suppress what he was and that the magic he use, is what leaks through the cracks. what would you do if I tell you that a ten year old overturned the decision of the sorting hat, the same hat that contains the four founders power, of putting him in Slytherin just because his first real friend was in another house, and that the same boy was the only one capable of killing the dark lord. That it was an almost one year old baby that destroy him that night instead of the almost two year old, that everybody thought he was, after all nobody had seen the boy except for him and his parents, and that by the time he would reach the wizarding world he won't matter how small or young he looked because everybody believed a lie. What would you do if you found a source of raw, untapped, untrained pure source of magic, that Harry doesn't only posses magic he is magic?"

"I would try to control him from the very beginning." said Severus truthfully.

"That's why Dumbledore does the things he does. Now before I came here, I contacted both councils and they agreed to meet tonight and have a decision by morning, but for now I believe Harry has heal himself enough in order to Apparate a long distance." With that he walked out of the room leaving three very shocked people behind, and by the time they came out of their shock he and Harry were already half way to Romania.

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Meanwhile in a undisclosed location and for the first time in over two hundred years the council of Zias and demons had convene together, what for you may ask, well if you were a smart wizard you would know that nowadays things must rotate around Harry Potter, and this historic meeting was also one of those things.

"I welcome each and every one of you, and give you my profound thanks in coming in so short notice to discuss this important situation." said the representative of the demons, both sides new that a lot was riding in the decisions they reach today. Today they would make new allegiances not only with each other, but with various important groups in the magical community both human and creature alike, and all because a boy had the misfortune of losing his parents, and because he was born at a time that fate was bored.

"Now as you know young Harry Potter has come into his magical inheritance before the age of sixteen, and it present us with some problems."

"I don't see how this involve your kind demon! After all he is one of us, we will take care of him, and make any decisions regarding him." spoke a Zia.

"He maybe one of your kind, but it has been one of my kind that's been taking care of that child since he entered the wizarding world. In fact, you might want to remember that he was adopted by my kind when he disappear for over three months, some many moons ago and that it was that accident that propel Albus to take the boy away before time." before anybody could reply and before the fickle truce could be broken and blood spilt, the ancients of them all decided to speak.

"You should all be ashamed of yourselves, both wanting to claim a boy not because of what was best for him, but because of what you can gain from him. It is not only shameful to see the leaders of their kind behave like this but it's also despicable, I have half a mind to send him with the werewolf or the young female human child that is his friend, at least they would have him in mind when making decisions. Now I am old and weary and I would rather spend my time watching the children of my children play and bicker, than watching all of you bicker. Now this is what's going to happen as of today the child it's recognized legally as part of both prides, he will spend the time until his birthday with Mr. Weasley, but his new found pride and mate are allowed to visit him, in fact I encourage them to do it. On the day of his birthday full custody will go to Severus Snape, as his late mate was part of Mr. Potter's pride, what happens after that day is up to and only up to his guardian." and with that she left the room.

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Later that night at the Malfoy Mansion a representative of the council and friend of the family sat talking with them.

"I'm surprised at how quickly they reach an agreement." said Lucius

"Well nobody had a choice, as soon as Lucinda arrive; she stop all the fighting and told us what would be done." said Amelia.

"And just what is it that we have agreed to?" asked Severus.

"The child is recognized by both prides, but from the day of his birthday you will have the final say until he mates, but you can't prohibited him from seeing his demon family or that werewolf. He will stay with the Weasley child until his birthday too, but all of you are encourage, well she really demanded that you visit the boy. He is not to be pushed into the bonding or having children. At school the child will live in your quarters. All in all it could have been worse. Draco is allow to mate with him, and nobody but you will have a say in the child's life." After the news had been share they all could breathe a little more easily.

"Well if you excuse me, I think I will write Harry a letter. Better yet, I'll write him a letter and send some of mums cookies to help him feel better." and with that a much lighter, calmer, and happy Draco Malfoy exited the room.

Now while Draco had been as happy as a clam, the same could not be said about Harry. For you see, he had awoken while Charlie and another man had been talking and after hearing what they were saying he took off running into the darkness of the dragon reserve.

"Well there you are, for a moment I thought that I would have to explain to mum why a dragon had eaten you." said Charlie to the young soon to be fifteen year old, that look like a twelve year old.

"They wouldn't have eaten me, they like me, remember?" and Charlie did remember, to the untrained eye, the dragon that Harry had face at the first task was trying to kill him, but for him and the other dragon trainers it was an amazing site. The dragon was playing with Harry something that they had never seen before, granted Harry had gotten hurt, but if you consider their size difference and the fact that Harry had the more dangerous of the dragons that day, well you could see how different it could have been.

"I know that they like you, I would go as far as to say that they love you, and that you have a unique connection with nature and the world around you, but to be honest it's not them that I'm really worried about, so why don't we go in and discuss what you overheard and who knows it may not be as bad as you think." and with that they both walked back to his tent.

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